I shot Andy Warhol

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Movie
German title I shot Andy Warhol
Original title I shot Andy Warhol
Country of production USA , UK
original language English
Publishing year 1996
length 103 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Mary Harron
script Mary Harron,
Daniel Minahan ,
Jeremiah Newton ,
Diane Tucker
production Tom Kalin ,
Christine Vachon
music John Cale
camera Ellen Kuras
cut Keith Reamer
occupation

I Shot Andy Warhol is an American biopic about the life of Valerie Solanas and her relationship with Andy Warhol . The film is loosely based on Jeremiah Newton's The Letters and Diaries of Candy Darling, 1992 . Although the story has been greatly modified, it should give a good impression of the circumstances at that time. This film is the first work by director Mary Harron . The independent film premiered on January 20, 1996 at the Sundance Film Festival . At the 1996 Cannes International Film Festival , the film was presented in the Un Certain Regard series.

The film was shot in 1996 . Lili Taylor as Valerie, Jared Harris as Andy Warhol and Martha Plimpton as Valerie's friend Stevie can be seen in the leading roles. Stephen Dorff plays the drag queen Candy Darling .

action

Valerie Solanas finances her living with casual prostitution and scrounging. As the founder and chairwoman of the “SCUM - Society for Cutting Up Men”, she spreads her radical feminist thoughts. By chance she meets the introverted pop artist Andy Warhol. He says anyone can be a star for fifteen minutes. Solanas enters the entourage that surrounds the artist, but after Warhol's initial interest, she is excluded from the circle again because of her great anger that he does not publish her self-written piece Up Your Ass . Now full of hatred and disappointment, Solanas assassins Warhol by firing three shots at him. However, this survived.

background

Leading actress Lili Taylor (2013)
  • Mary Harron was inspired to shoot the film by reading the SCUM Manifesto , Valerie Solanas ' anti-man essay published in the 1960s. It was originally planned as a documentation . However, the filmmakers hardly found any footage of Solanas or almost no one to speak about her.
  • The filmmakers were allowed to reproduce some of Andy Warhol's images for filming. However, they had to be destroyed again after the shooting ended.
  • Since Lou Reed from the band The Velvet Underground prohibited the use of his music in the film, Yo La Tengo appear as an anonymous band.
  • DVD launch in Germany was on July 29, 2004.
  • The film was produced by Playhouse International Pictures in collaboration with The Samuel Goldwyn Company and BBC Arena.
  • The film grossed $ 1,875,527 .
  • The film was shot in Detroit , Michigan .
  • The premiere in Germany was on January 30, 1997.

Reviews

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The film received mostly positive reviews. At Rotten Tomatoes , the film got an average rating of 6.8 / 10 from the critics. At Metacritic the critics got a rating of 7.5 / 10. In the IMDb , the film got a rating of 6.6 / 10.

"Harron's style and Taylor's unforgettable performance keep us off-balance and engrossed."

"Harron's style and Taylor's unforgettable performance keep us balanced and captivated."

- Rob Thomas : Capital Times (Madison, WI)

"An extraordinary, shrill-weird film debut, which consists of loose, only fragmentarily assembled moments of action and is composed in subjectively captured impressions of a wondrous declaration of love to Andy Warhol as well as the city of New York and its lively art scene of the 60s."

Soundtrack

The film's soundtrack consists of 17 songs.

Awards

Web links

Footnotes

Remarks

  1. template
  2. Research
  3. see quotes from Andy Warhol on Wikiquote

Individual evidence

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  2. Release Info. In: IMDb . amazon.com , accessed February 7, 2017 .
  3. ^ I Shot Andy Warhol (1995). In: kino.de. Ströer Media , accessed on February 7, 2017 .
  4. I Shot Andy Warhol. In: Box Office Mojo . amazon.com , accessed February 7, 2017 .
  5. ^ Company credits. In: IMDb . amazon.com , accessed February 7, 2017 .
  6. a b c I Shot Andy Warhol (1996). Rotten Tomatoes . Retrieved February 5, 2017 .
  7. a b I Shot Andy Warhol 1996. Metacritic , accessed February 5, 2017 .
  8. ^ I Shot Andy Warhol (1996). In: IMDb . amazon.com , accessed February 5, 2017 .
  9. I Shot Andy Warhol. In: Lexicon of International Films . Two thousand and one , accessed February 5, 2017 .
  10. Soundtracks. In: IMDb . amazon.com , accessed February 7, 2017 .